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On July 19, , the United States bombs railway yards in Rome in an attempt to break the will of the Italian people to resist—as Hitler lectures their leader, Benito Mussolini, on how to prosecute the war further. Live TV. Napoleon also instructed soldiers and commanders to be on the lookout for anything valuable—an order that was front-of-mind for Bouchard when he discovered the stone. Photo circa the s. General Manou actually tried to claim the stone as his personal property, but the English recognized its value and made its transfer part of the official surrender.
Visitors viewing the Rosetta Stone in at the British Museum. Getty For decades, the Rosetta Stone sat uncovered in the museum. Although they were discouraged from doing so, visitors would walk up and touch the stone, often tracing the writing with their fingers—a scenario that would no doubt horrify most modern curators. Scholars were able to quickly translate the 54 lines of Greek and 32 lines of demotic inscribed on the stone.
But fully deciphering the 14 lines of hieroglyphics took years. Part of the problem was a prevailing notion that hieroglyphics were a symbolic writing system when in fact it was a largely phonetic one. Don't have an account?
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Both men were brilliant. Young, the elder by seventeen years, made incredible progress with both the hieroglyphic and demotic scripts, but it was Champollion who led the final breakthrough. Champollion had dedicated his intellectual efforts since childhood to ancient Egypt and studied Coptic under Silvestre de Sacy.
At this moment, he became the first person in well over a millennium to read the cartouches of Ramses and Thutmosis in their original language. With the mysteries of the Egyptian script unlocked by Champollion and his successors, scholars were able to confirm the Rosetta Stone represented three translations of a single text. The content of that text, already known from the Greek version, was a decree in the name of king Ptolemy V Epiphanes.
On March 27, BCE, a synod of priests from around Egypt convened to celebrate the coronation of Ptolemy V Epiphanes the previous day in the city of Memphis, the traditional capital of Egypt. At that time, Memphis had been eclipsed economically by Alexandria on the Mediterranean coast, but the city remained an important symbolic link with the pharaonic past.
The royal edict stemming from this meeting was circulated on stelae throughout the country. As the congregation and coronation took place in Memphis, the text on the Rosetta Stone - and therefore sometimes the stone itself - is often referred to as the Memphis Decree.
The decree is attested on several other stelae from Elephantine and Tell el Yahudiya, while select passages are paralleled on a stela from Nobaireh.
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